# animate! › Films › Minema Cinema by Tim Hope › all › synopses › direction & collaboration › full production credits › film stills › tools & processes › format & distribution › background material Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/minemacinema/all Discovery terms: 2000s animation, 3d cgi, 2d digital animation, live action and animation, children's storytelling, imagination, anthology, filmmaker, animator The following is the archived page text; discovery terms above are separately sourced metadata. Archive status: restored in 2026; historical calls, deadlines and services are closed. --- **Minema Cinema** a film by Tim Hope 2004, 21 min 30 sec ![Minema Cinema, still: *Revenge Is Cold*](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/minemacinema01.jpg) *Revenge Is Cold* ### animate! synopsis A collection of bizarrely original animated stories from scripts written by young children. Emulating the approach of New York’s [52nd Street Project](http://www.52project.org/) and London’s [Scene & Heard](http://www.sceneandheard.org/) theatre groups, the film is voiced by professional adult actors and directed to render the children’s dramatic intentions as sincerely as possible. Three short films within one film: **Revenge Is Cold** – Woody the box of matches dreams of becoming a lighter. In the Mexican desert he encounters Antus, an untrustworthy cactus, who claims he can help him fufil his ambitions. Together they journey to ‘The Land of the Freeze’ – the North Pole – where a surprise is in store for both of them. **Love Then First Fight** – Bob Brakinlot the crowbar is a reformed criminal, determined to give himself a second chance. Into his world bursts Blossom Shritz, a shirt whose life has been torn apart. Desperate for acceptance and affection, they seem to offer each other “a chance to be average in a nasty world“. But can they both put the past behind them? **Keep Going** – A young egg, Stuart, escapes from his fridge in Scotland on a mission to meet his hero, Michael Jackson. On the streets of Aberfeldy he bumps into Andrew, a lonely gorilla, who is searching for his family. Together they begin an epic quest, which will lead them to both joyful and tragic ends (via Inverness). ### key credits **director** Tim Hope **writer** Kevin Pinto Thomas Gwyther Acai Duang Arop **music** Antony Brown Oliver Davis **producer** Kai Simmons ### Tim Hope #### short biography Tim took a degree in theology and worked as a stand-up comedian before making his multi-prizewinning manic short [The Wolfman](https://web.archive.org/web/20061012195506/http://www.jdaf.gr.jp/fame_e/1999_win.html) (British Animation Awards 2000: Public Choice and Best Animation at the Cutting Edge). Since then he has directed & animated commercials plus notable music videos for bands like Beta Band, One Giant Leap and Coldplay. He lives in London. 30 November 2003 ### a film by Tim Hope ### direction **director** Tim Hope ### script **writer** Kevin Pinto Thomas Gwyther Acai Duang Arop ### based upon **actual credit** based upon **title of original material** workshops devised at Scene & Heard with **author** Kate Coleman and Sophie Boyack ### voice-over Oliver Senton Roger May Jessica Radcliffe Dan Copeland ### live-action personnel **live-action** Sue Green ### image personnel **animator** Tim Hope Tim Sanpher Tom Stanton Matt Everitt Naz Khajenouri **graphics** Peter Richardson **editor** Chris Barwell ### sound personnel **music** Adelphoi Music Antony Brown Oliver Davis **sound designer** Tom Russell **audio facility** We Write Music ### production personnel **executive producer** Russell Maclean **producer** Kai Simmons **production company** Cloth Productions / Passion Pictures ### support **thanks** Andrew Bone, Selina Boyack, Jason Cheater, Gaelle Denis, Don Gillet, Matt Herbert, Chris Hemming, Clive Hayward, David Lea, Nick Rowe, Vissey Safavi, Hugo Sands, Susie Trayling, and all at Passion Pictures **primary funding** an animate! commission funded through Finetake by Arts Council England and Channel 4 © Tim Hope 2004 [![Minema Cinema, still: *Revenge Is Cold*](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/minemacinema01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/minemacinema01.jpg) **Revenge Is Cold** - *click on image for full size still* [![Minema Cinema, still: *Revenge Is Cold*](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/minemacinema02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/minemacinema02.jpg) **Revenge Is Cold** - *click on image for full size still* [![Minema Cinema, still: *Revenge Is Cold*](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/minemacinema03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/minemacinema03.jpg) **Revenge Is Cold** - *click on image for full size still* [![Minema Cinema, still: *Revenge Is Cold*](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/minemacinema04.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/minemacinema04.jpg) **Revenge Is Cold** - *click on image for full size still* [![Minema Cinema, still: *Love Then First Fight*](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/minemacinema05.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/minemacinema05.jpg) **Love Then First Fight** - *click on image for full size still* [![Minema Cinema, still: *Love Then First Fight*](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/minemacinema06.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/minemacinema06.jpg) **Love Then First Fight** - *click on image for full size still* [![Minema Cinema, still: *Keep Going*](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/minemacinema07.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/minemacinema07.jpg) **Keep Going** - *click on image for full size still* [![Minema Cinema, still: *Keep Going*](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/minemacinema08.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/minemacinema08.jpg) **Keep Going** - *click on image for full size still* [![Minema Cinema, still: *Keep Going*](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/minemacinema09.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/minemacinema09.jpg) **Keep Going** - *click on image for full size still* ### technical #### process summary Digital 3D / 2D animation combined with live action. ### master copy format **format** DigiBeta **colour or black & white** colour ### video distribution format **video format** DigiBeta **screen aspect ratio** 16:9 **video standard** PAL **sound type** stereo ### distributor LUX [info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk) +44 (0)20 7503 3980 [www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/) ### pre-history #### working title (initially known as) Democratic Youth Cinema **Minema Cinema** film, stills and other materials © Tim Hope 2004